Born 1957, Prashant Panjiar is an independent photographer and curator. Self-taught. his first self-financed project that received acclaim was his work for a book on banditry in the Chambal region of Central India. From 1984 to 2001 he worked as a photojournalist in the print media at Patriot newspaper, India Today magazine and the Outlook Group of publications, where he was also one of the editors.